A31 display driver problem

[lenicheck]

Help out there!

I have an A31 on which I recently tried updating the ATI driver from the Lenovo site. The driver update failed, asking for me to revert to a "VGA" driver. The driver in the hardware config showed as being a "VGASave" driver and when I tried changing the bootup to "automatic" from "default" (?) everything is now totally blank at startup in XP. There is no display whatsoever. I have tried updating the BIOS to the latest. Still no change.

I can get into the BIOS Setup to make changes but the system does not boot up in safe mode - It hangs at a driver load called "agp440.eys".

Please help!

[slagmi]

1: try 'last known good' rather than safe mode
2: try letting it sit for ten or fifteen minutes at 'agp440.sys' - it may move on .

[lenicheck]

The last known good config comes up with the same - a blank screen. Also, the safe mode still hangs, even tho I let it sit for 20 min. Any more suggestions?

I thought I might try reloading XP but since I can't see anything I'm not sure it will work.

[a31pguy]

if you are using XP and FAT32 instead of NTFS - you can boot to disk and manually replace the files. Otherwise you could call microsoft and do a pay-per-incident to recover if it's that important.


Also check out the admin kit from sysinternals.com - that might help you.

[slagmi]

renaming agp440.sys to .old is worth a try I suppose. But IME it's 50/50. If it then hangs on some other file your probabally done. Reload, Restore or Recover.